Over the last few months, we have worked with the Migration Policy Institute, Metropolitan Group, and Rand Corporation to better understand how migration narratives take hold, shape policy, and, in more and more instances, are politically weaponized.
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‘Those aren’t whips’
Way back in 2008, Richard Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute, “a tiny white supremacist organization,” according to the ADL, coined the term “Alt-Right.” In August of 2017, Spencer exploded onto the scene, instigating the violence in Charlottesville that killed Heather Heyer and injured dozens of others.
These days, Charlie Kirk tells his …
What do you need?
We read about Haiti a lot.
But, we don’t think about Haiti a lot.
Well, the reality of a flow of Haitian migration that began 11 years ago has reached the nation's doorstep.
In January 2010, the island nation of 11 million people, less than 700 miles from Miami, was hit by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake just outside of …
A New Story…
In the weeks and days leading up to 9/11, comprehensive immigration reform was within grasp. President Bush was spending political capital. Mexico’s President Fox, before becoming the best F-Bomber ever, was fully invested.
The pieces were falling into place. Which means we were *that close* to me advocating for puppies.
Instead …
The honorable thing
In January of 1979, after his seminal CBS News special on the Vietnamese boat people fleeing the communist regime, Ed Bradley stood on Ellis Island. He told America, “For us the Vietnam War is over. And, like it or not, we lost that war. But, while there, we sold many of its people a way of life, an attitude. And now they are the losers. And we face moral dilemma.”
In …